An arrest has been made after a man opened fire on a restaurant with a stolen rifle in San Diego’s Hillcrest area Tuesday. The suspect has been charged with nine counts of attempted murder, use of a firearm in a felony, and, last but certainly not least, felon in possession of a firearm (it was illegal for him to be in possession of any firearms or ammunition).
The restaurant is located in the busy uptown neighborhood, which is home to much of the city’s LGBTQ population. Bystanders made 911 calls to report seeing a man in a trench coat firing numerous rounds from a rifle into the Asian-food restaurant, shattering its front windows, about 7:40 p.m.
Following the barrage of gunshots, the shooter lowered his weapon and walked off, Officer John Buttle said.
The suspect used a relatively standard-appearing AR-15 pattern rifle which does not appear to be California compliant.
Shattered glass and bullet holes at the Asian Bistro in #Hillcrest Several customers and employees were inside when a gunman began shooting. No one was hit by the flying bullets. Rifle found in alley a few blocks south of shooting scene. Man arrested. @10News pic.twitter.com/pctcb6buMz
— Mimi Elkalla (@10NewsMimi) February 13, 2019
The suspect reportedly ditched the rifle and the clothing he wore during the attack in an alley, yet was located by San Diego Police officers nearby after matching the physical description given by witnesses.
Thankfully, no serious injuries were sustained. The only casualty is the bistro itself, its windows now shattered and riddled with bullet holes.
The Hillcrest area is well known as the LGBT-centric region of San Diego. The LGBT self-defense group I founded and run, (Armed Equality) is based here in San Diego, so my phone blew up with notifications within minutes of shooting.
In seeking details, my research led me to the suspect’s Facebook account where the following post was found and shared with local law enforcement.
As usual, many of the local news reports are throwing around terms such as, “assault weapon”, “high capacity clip”, and “assault style ammunition” etc. I have no doubt the anti-Second Amendment factions in San Diego are gearing up to use this incident in all the usual ways. And unfortunately I am quite sure that some of those advocating for more firearm restricting laws will be some LGBT groups.
These are the same groups that irrationally despise what Armed Equality does and stands for. The same people who call myself and the many armed pro-Second Amendment LGBT members of Armed Equality “racist” simply for facilitating advanced training in unarmed self defense, armed self defense, medical training, CCW applications, etc.
I am extremely thankful that no one was seriously injured Tuesday. While looking through the suspect’s Facebook profile I got the impression that he has not been psychologically well for some time. As the screenshot above shows, he definitely appears to have harbored some serious anti-LGBT hatred.
Criminals don’t care about laws; they are one of many reasons why LGBT individuals who support the natural right to armed self defense often carry on a daily basis. We are Americans. We vote pro-Second Amendment. We deserve equal access to the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Never again will we hide or live in fear. We stand strong; and we stand arm-in-arm with the Second Amendment community.
(Armed Equality was founded in response to the Pulse Nightclub shooting of which was the deadliest terrorist attack [and hate crime] on American soil post 9/11).
Piper Smith is the founder & director of Armed Equality.
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Wait its impossible. California has the countries most restrictive gun laws that make its citizens safe
What shocks me the most is it was not a Calif compliant AR15……There’s laws!
+1
I too am totally flummoxed, Gobsmacked, and whimsically befuddled. How could this dastardly criminal dare use an unapproved AR-15 death ray in his Heinous crime?
and with “Assault ammunition” no less! How dastardly!
Look at Chicago! Was for years the most Violent Gun Crime City in the U.S.. Tightest Gun Laws, Not one Gun Store in the Whole City! Highest gun crimes in the U.S. Now it has became popular several other cities has gained the honor. Chicago crimes have not went down, but the other cities have caught up and past them!
And guess what cities like LA and Chicago, in states like California and Illinois have in common……….. That’s right, their all anti-gun cities and states, with loads of (gun free) zones.
And Democraps in office.
If not for Rudy NYC could have made that list…….granted our current mayor and governer are doing their best to catch up
Let me repeat, no handgun restrictions for 5 years and shall issue for 5 years. Unlike LA, unlike New York.
New York CITY’s murder rate is only 70% of the whole STATE of Texas. I how TAG comes up with the idea that guns laws have some kind of effect on the murder rate in the U.S.
If you really analyze the data, you may not like the results.
you don’t have to be nuts…to dislike these people….
his groupings look as tight as his grip on sanity.
Your response wins the internet today. Well done.
actually looks like he was doing his best to shatter windows without shooting low enough to hit anybody. Maybe he was just looking for “three hots n a cot” and venting… he dumped an AR worth a few bucks to lots of bangers… Hmmm
Glad no one was hurt and the dipshit is in custody. Somehow I doubt this will work for the news cycle as it doesn’t fit the “white racist bigot fat dude goes after minority” narrative entirely.
He’s one of those new black white-supremacists they’re harping about lately.
Clayton Bixby strikes again
no pictures of the shooter and no mention of the race in the article you know it wasnt a white guy.
First I heard about THIS…false flag?!?
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-me-hillcrest-rifle-shooting-20190212-story.html
https://fox5sandiego.com/2019/02/14/see-inside-hillcrest-restaurant-where-alleged-gunman-fired-19-shots-at-customers/
https://www.kusi.com/man-arrested-after-hillcrest-shooting-no-one-injured/
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Hillcrest-Shooting-Asian-Bistro-Stefano-Markell-Parker-San-Diego-505792781.html
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/feb/13/man-arrested-san-diego-restaurant-shooting/
These are all local news sites. I have not seen this on any national site as of this morning.
Lessee, no one hurt, shooter arrested, gun stolen, what deserves any attention, even from TTAG?
For the love of god, why does everything have to be a “false flag operation” nowadays? Is it really that hard to believe in a country with several hundred million people that some of them are insane and capable of violence?
Agree. False Flag is similar to ‘Racist’. Literally has no meaning now.
Their aluminum foil hats are scrambling the signals and leaving them very 😕 confused.
The term definitely has meaning; it’s the morons who keep saying it whenever anything/everything happens that have made themselves irrelevant.
“For the love of god, why does everything have to be a false flag operation nowadays?”
Because overall violent crime is at a low and that doesn’t jive well with their plans.
A bog-standard AR15, symbol of the 2A, instead of a much more useful cqb weapon like a shotgun.
A “non-compliant” rifle likely from another state = the entire U.S. needs to follow California’s gun laws.
A protected class of people being targeted by someone MSM will claim is a “typical conservative”
A “shining example of why the U.S. needs ERPOs and UK style internet police” per the MSM.
Then again, that is just what seems glaringly obvious at first glance, I’ll need to hear the approved narrative being built upon in the coming days if I’m going to add more to the list.
This has to be a “fake news” story. Kalifonia doesn’t have any non compliant guns. Let alone a real AR15. We have to get to the bottom of this story and have Newsom make up some more new laws to stop these non existent guns from getting into Kalifornia.
I knew it had to be a Standard-Appearing AR-15 Pattern Rifle because David Pig/ Hogg says that is what they are Designed for! So you can’t Shoot People with any other type Rifle! Wonder why that nobody shot anyone with these Dangerous Rifles for over 40 years before someone figured out what they were designed for? Strange to me to think it took people that long to learn that!
They never talk about the Dangerous Designed Standard Appearing AR-15 Pattern Rifle Peoples lives have been saved by these Dangerous Designed Pattern Rifles! There are several Million of them out there that have not Shot Anyone!
Why did this wait until your 1/2 black/white Squatter was placed in Our White House? Is that the Date where all Americans lost their minds? We have steady lost ground ever since!
The magic bullets didn’t kill everyone in the area. It must have been defective!
What the hell is “assault style ammunition”? How does it differ from the AR rounds I shoot?
And where can I buy some? Sounds cool.
According to our enlightened luminaries of the media, it is ammunition that can destroy a tank, derail trains, bring down airliners, make cars explode so violently they flip over, and tumbles in flight to make it more damaging and lethal while always hitting the target over a mile away.
You realize Hollywood is in California right? They have had assault ammo since at least the 80’s
When used correctly in an AR …it can SUCK out souls at over 5 ft in just passing by without hitting a thing!
Is that the 5.56 Creedmore, or the .45 acp AR-15?
Rifle was reported to be 5.56
@Piper,
I think you missed the joke.
Brings up a great fear! What if Chuck Norris had a 6.5 Creedmore? Would anyone in the world be safe, ever again?
Image of rifle used:
https://twitter.com/10NewsMimi/status/1095688974264295425
From what I can make out of the photo, the AR15 definitely has a pistol grip without a grip fin, making it appear to be CA noncompliant. But it is possible to be compliant and have the “evil features” (flash hider, VFG, colapsable stock, pistol grip), but the AR has to be modified for a “fixed mag”, meaning the standard mag release button shall not function as originally designed. The lawmakers believe these modifications “slows down” mag changes for a bad guy…asuming a bad guy follows the law.
“Assuming a bad guy or woman follows the law”…………… Which they do not!!!!!
Looks like it jammed too.
That definitely looked like it had an empty mag well.
…” No one was hit by the flying bullets..”
Really? flying bullets?
Piper Smith,
I want to thank you for ‘fighting the good fight’, informing *all* Citizens that they have the Right, some may say obligation, to protect themselves.
I hope this incident will remind all that when tolerance or love is lost, hate festers and may reap violence.
May comfort and reason find y’all.
Huh TTAG printing fake news.
Clearly all those gun laws in California have stopped crime.
Gee, I thought that CA’s universal background checks and assault weapons bans were going to magically stop anything like this from happening?
Ugh, “with an axe to grind *against* LGBTQ peoples”
Good thing the shooter used an AR-15 instead of a high powered rifle…
But those bullets were very assaulty, so it probably evens out.
Oh, I’m sure the news will do some autistic screeching on this. They will say the rifle came from out of state, or the parts were from out of state and we need a national AWB to stop the madness. Of course there are millions of parts for ARs out there and they can also be easily imported from Mexico in the future. Hell, why not set up a plastics company in Mexico and make the shit and send it north with each wave of humanity that crosses the border?
This week’s special – every brick of fentanyl comes with a free auto sear in the box!
The weapon wasn’t “California Complint”. Well shame on the shooter for using a Non California Compliant Weapon in criminal assault/attempted murder, which was the more serious violation? Send him to bed without desert. No web site, nor am I a devotee of Facebook. Guess I’m incorrigibly old fashioned.
Hmm, Seems like straight people are afraid of LGBT people, cause they fear their sexual identity. What has Any LGBT person done other then being themself? They don’t go around shooting people, incite hate, get into violent confrontations. I’m from san diego, Ghost guns are rampant here( I have a few :), People don’t obey the gun laws as everyone knows it’s ridiculous. The Police and gov’t can’t do anything with the millions of high cap mags, and autoloaders out there. So they just keep passing laws to restrict people rights. The Sight was down, that’s why he missed, hah.
you appear to have a distorted view of straight people…no matter how often you say it doesn’t make it true…you’re kidding yourself by accepting a dictum that isn’t remotely true…
I’m glad there were no serious injuries. Now stop voting for homosexual gun grabbers like State Senator Tom Ammiano. The man who wrote the law making rape victims, and everyone else, wait an extra ten days to get a gun.
And start voting for gay people who actually support civil rights like Justin Raimondo, a pro gun and REAL pro Liberty candidate who ran against Nancy pelosi and lost.
And if you’re voting to fill a position which does not have a gay, pro civil rights candidate, you might consider a *straight* pro civil rights candidate. Duh.
Unfortunately these the vast majority of these people don’t understand the obvious. But pro gun people like Tammy Bruce do. I just wish there was more of them.
So a Mexican, and he was blatantly from mexico is running around armed and badly trained and this will be the way Kalifornia protects its Rich from the masses of poor who will be flooding the streets.
Suspect is listed as black in his booking records.
So, in your imagination, a Mexican cannot be black?
A black guy (and the failbook profile pic indicates he could well be black) might be a Mexican citizen but in this case it seems more likely that he’s a member of the ReligionOfPeace.
so, you can’t even have food safely now 🙁
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